ETH Bioenergia becomes Odebrecht Agroindustrial

10:36 AM MST | February 6, 2013 | Kara Sissell

Brazil biofuels firm ETH Bioenergia (São Paulo) says it has changed its name to Odebrecht Agroindustrial, part of its parent company's corporate strategy to better align it under the Odebrecht brand. Odebrecht is also parent company of Braskem, South America's leading polyolefins producer. Odebrecht Agroindustrial says it plans to process 32% more surgarcane in the 2013–14 planting season, or about 30 million m.t. That corresponds to 2 billion liters of ethanol, 2,000 gigawatts of electricity, and 700 m.t. of sugar. "We reaffirm our...